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Courts & crime, 1913

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Suffragette Folly. More Court Proceedings

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 5

Three persons have been arrested in connection with the fire by which a Presbyterian Church was destroyed. Scotland Yard authorities are daily…

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Albury Small Debts Court. Tuesday, May 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 47

George Wolckenhaar, commission agent, sued Christopher Ryan for £40, being 5 per cent, commission on the sale of a property in Kiewa-street, Albury, for…

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Life and Routine of a Member of the London Police Force

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 40

In Close on twelve thousand miles of Streets, amid the crowded thoroughfares of Central. London, in lonely country lanes, under the shadow of luxurious West End…

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Corowa Small Debts Court. Wednesday, May 21, 1913. (Before Messrs. R. F. Gardner and S. W. Thompson. J's.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 2

Davar Singh (Strong and Ogilvie) V. Tarum Singh (Mr. Edmondson), claim for £5, for one bay mare, aged, sold on 30th September last…

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Cablegrams. Suffragette Outrages. Policeman's Niece Charged. Incendiarism at Cambridge. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 2

The school teacher, Miriam Pratt, who was arrested on Wednesday on a charge of incendiarism at Storey's Way, Cambridge, was brought before the police…

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The Unwritten Law. Notable Trial for Murder. Accused Acquitted. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 2

A trial notable for the application of the unwritten law has resulted in the acquittal at the Wiltshire assizes of John Price for the murder of his brother, Nathaniel…

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The Manly Tragedy. Main Committed for Trial for Murder. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 2

The inquest concerning the death of the laundryman, Ernest Overton, who was shot by a burglar at Manly recently, was opened at the City Coroner's Court…

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Alleged Theft of a Rug

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 5

In the afternoon McLoughln was further charged with having stolen a rug, valued at £1, the property of Ernest Arthur Riley, at Albury that day…

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Valueless Cheques at Wagga. Offender From Albury Sentenced

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 2

At the Wagga Police court on Monday, Thomas Bruce was charged with having, on May 12, obtained £3 by means of a false pretence, to wit, a valueless cheque…

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Mrs. Pankhurst in Gaol Recommitted to Serve Sentence. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 2

Mrs. Pankhurst, whom the Government was forced to release owing to her hunger strike, is once again in custody. She was re-arrested as she was leaving…

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French Anti-militarism. Police Search Houses. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 2

Acting under instructions from the Government the police yesterday searched the headquarters of the Confederation of Labor and other industrial unions in…

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A Warm Reception. an Intruder Sentenced. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 2

A decision in the case of Bertram Albert Paget, aged 24 years, a railway employee, who was convicted at the Glebe police court on Friday in connection with…

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Victorian Police Force. Minimum Height Reduced. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 3

The minimum height for Victorian policemen is to be reduced from 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 8 inches. This decision is the outcome of a…

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Police Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 2

A man named Clem Hill was had up on Tuesday morning last before Messrs. Thorburn and Elliott, J's P. charged with being found drunk and…

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Mrs. Pankhurst. Rearrested by Police. Return to Holloway Gaol. London, May 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 45

Mrs. Pankhurst was rearrested by the police yesterday. On April 13 she was sentenced to three years imprisonment for having incited…

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Culcairn Wants a Police Court Building. Justices of Peace Write to Council

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 2

Regarding the movement in Culcairn for the erection of police court buildings, the justice of the town have now interested themselves in the matter. They forwarded…

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Mother-in-law Poisoned. Young Woman Charged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 2

At Yass on Wednesday Ethel Armstrong was charged with having attempted to poison her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Armstrong, at Rosehill, near [?]…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, May 27. (Before Mr. Roberts, P.M.) "Jumping the Rattler."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 31

William Bennen and Charles Peazley pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to travel on the New South Wales railway between Albury and Wagga without…

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Safebreakers Captured. Smart Work by Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 3

The Sydney policy were cheered on Tuesday night by by crowd of about 500 people in the Hay Market. After a week's hard work of shadowing, three men were…

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Court of Petty Sessions at Walla

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 2

Mr. J. J. Jones, hon. secretary Walla branch of the and S. Association, wrote asking for the council's assistance in an endeavor to have a court of petty sessions…

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